watch those old Hammer Films Dracula movies with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. They are pretty awesome old movies from the '60s. I remember TCM played them about 2 years ago in October and I watched them all.

Also that old Salem's Lot made for tv movie is scary as ****. Definitely watch that. I love October.

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

You guys need to get serious and go see The Master. Looper is super great but The Master will be remembered years from now as the best movie from a strong year for movies (2012). It is challenging, thought provoking, and magical. Don't listen to that bastard Brodeur.

The Master will be remembered as a movie that had some damn good acting but no focus and didn't achieve the same heights as other PTA movies. Looper will be remembered as a Science Fiction classic.

So you can speak in absolutes too. Agree to disagree because I do completely disagree with you here. Sci Fi classic is quite the strech. Dude who did Primer consulted on Looper. That is a sci fi classic. In all honesty and I will probably need to watch Looper again to be sure, I enjoyed Brick more as far as Rian Johnson films go. I really do think my opinion of Looper was effected by how great The Master was which I saw two hours before. Looper was fun as **** but imo lacked the substance that The Master brought to the table.

Watched that movie Goon on Netflix just because I like hockey and heard it wasn't terrible. Thought it was pretty funny and enjoyable but the ending was kind of weird. Didn't go in expecting anything but was pleasantly surprised with it. Didn't even mind crazy face all that much, but I can't for the life of me figure out why people think she's good looking. Weirdest face I've seen in awhile.

I'm more excited about The Master simply because PTA is one of my favorite directors ever and PSH is the ******* man. Also intrigued by Joaquin Phoenix in this role as well. That initial trailer they released that featured him was flat out terrifyingly awesome. Will see both for certain and I rarely see movies in theaters because I'm a cheap/poor SOB.

So you can speak in absolutes too. Agree to disagree because I do completely disagree with you here. Sci Fi classic is quite the strech. Dude who did Primer consulted on Looper. That is a sci fi classic. In all honesty and I will probably need to watch Looper again to be sure, I enjoyed Brick more as far as Rian Johnson films go. I really do think my opinion of Looper was effected by how great The Master was which I saw two hours before. Looper was fun as **** but imo lacked the substance that The Master brought to the table.

Let me make more of a point of this: Looper has more substance than The Master. The Master does not have a plot, the characters do not grow, and there's very little actual conflict in the movie. I very much enjoyed it, but it's more of a series of scenes than anything else. Looper expands on the whole "going back in time to kill Hitler/would you do it" theory, and handles time travel better than almost any movie out there.

Let me make more of a point of this: Looper has more substance than The Master. The Master does not have a plot, the characters do not grow, and there's very little actual conflict in the movie. I very much enjoyed it, but it's more of a series of scenes than anything else. Looper expands on the whole "going back in time to kill Hitler/would you do it" theory, and handles time travel better than almost any movie out there.

Looper handled time travel by making it a point of not handling time travel. I think the time travel was done very well and it was probably a good idea to not really go in specifics at all. I completely disagree with you about Looper having more substance than The Master. It did have a plot, just not a conventional one. The characters do grow and evolve, again just not in a conventional way. I thought there was a tremendous amount of conflict in the movie, not always between different characters. Really digging into the movie afterwards and discussing the nuances of the film I found there was just so much more meat if you will in The Master than there was in Looper. To each is own but I think you assessment is way off.

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I have no qualms with Mel, most sane people seem to praise him as a person.

Thats actually not true. Im not going to cite examples because i would have to look them up. Quite frankly, i believe the onus is on you to educate yourself when you are misinformed. I am not going to spoon feed information to you. Mel Gibson needs severe mental help and many people formerly close to him have said he is a racist and anti semite. With all that said, Braveheart is awesome.

Edit- Maybe I cant be classified as a sane person, so take that all with a grain of salt.